On August 19, 2020, curl published security updates addressing CVE-2020-8231. Previous releases of Puppet Agent contain a vulnerable version of curl. For more information about this vulnerability, refer to the security announcement for CVE-2020-8231.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text in this plugin were
# extracted from the PuppetLabs Security Advisory page. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Perforce Software, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(184141);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/02");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-8231");
script_name(english:"Puppet Agent 5.x < 5.5.22 / 6.x < 6.19.0 Vulnerability");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"An instance of Puppet Agent installed on the remote system is affected by a vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"On August 19, 2020, curl published security updates addressing CVE-2020-8231. Previous releases of Puppet
Agent contain a vulnerable version of curl. For more information about this vulnerability, refer to the
security announcement for CVE-2020-8231.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/curl-august-2020-security-fixes");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Puppet Agent version 5.5.22, 6.19.0, or later.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-8231");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/11/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/11/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/11/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet_agent");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Windows");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("puppet_agent_installed.nbin");
script_require_keys("installed_sw/Puppet Agent");
exit(0);
}
include('vcf.inc');
var app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:'Puppet Agent', win_local:TRUE);
var constraints = [
{ 'min_version':'5.0', 'fixed_version':'5.5.22' },
{ 'min_version':'6.0', 'fixed_version':'6.19.0' }
];
vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
puppetlabs | puppet_agent | cpe:/a:puppetlabs:puppet_agent |